…I had felt very confident of Labour + Green winning the 2023 election, but the growing list of policy delivery failures in housing, mental health and infrastructure alongside knee jerks like the bike bridge alongside alienating cancel culture hate speech madness opens the door to National + ACT + NZ First = 51%.
This government needs to spend far more time on housing, child poverty, education, welfare, infrastructure, climate change and inequality and far, far, far less time on social engineering vanity projects to criminalise you for word crimes!
There are two interesting issues with Muller announcing his retirement 2 years from the next election for leaking.
…I’ve only been pointing this out for 2 years.
The extraordinary ruling by the High Court that has forced the Palmerston North City Council into allowing a Feminist group (Stand Up For Women) to meet and discuss the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Bill is as brutal as lemon juice on a schism paper cut.
You’ve seen the woke, you’ve seen the glee with which they cancel anyone who disagrees with them – do we really want them gaining the power to criminalize disagreement?
…When due process is considered heteronormative white cis male privilege, when we must B-E-L-I-E-V-E women, when evidential threshold is the same as the Salem witch trials, woke vigilante mobs will become the norm.
Opening the travel bubble up before we are herd immunity vaccinated doesn’t seem like a bright idea now does it?
Does it terrify anyone else that a state department is now demanding the censorship of art?
…this is ultimately a political failure by Labour – they didn’t expect to win in 2017 & didn’t expect to win a majority in 2020, so they had no reform agenda for the neoliberal bureaucracy.